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The wheelchair they tossed into the sea killed a man aboard the Achille Lauro

The wheelchair they tossed into the sea killed a man aboard the Achille Lauro

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The wheelchair they tossed into the sea killed a man aboard the Achille Lauro

Four men lift a wheelchair from the deck of a cruise ship and carry it to the rail. The man inside is still alive. The ship beneath them has already survived bombings, collisions, fires, and a bankruptcy across nearly four decades — so what turned a routine Mediterranean crossing into the scene of a killing that reached the Supreme Court and became an opera?

In this episode, we trace the ship's origin, design, voyages and misfortunes from a keel laid in 1939 to the sinking of the Achille Lauro in 1994, following the thread that links a Dutch peacetime liner named for a war casualty to a killing at sea. What sequence of changes and incidents carried that hull from a Vlissingen shipyard to the Indian Ocean wreck?

Person: Leon Klinghoffer
Location: eastern Mediterranean, aboard the Achille Lauro
Date: 7 October 1985
Case: the wheelchair thrown overboard with Leon Klinghoffer still in it
Status: hijackers convicted in Italy; ship sank off Somalia in 1994; wreck never found

- Four men lifted a wheelchair and threw it into the sea on 7 October 1985 while Leon Klinghoffer was still alive

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